Summer on the High Line

The High Line park, which opened two summers ago on a disused elevated train track on Manhattan’s west side, got a major expansion this year—including “Rainbow City,” a colorful installation at Thirtieth Street by the art collective FriendsWithYou, which closes today. Last week the photographer Landon Nordeman, a frequent contributor to this magazine, mentioned to me that he’d never been. “Go! Have fun! Take pictures!” was my instant response, and I’m very happy to report Landon took the idea and ran with it. “As soon as I reached the top of the stairs, I was hooked,” he told me. Enjoy the view—and for more bright summer fun, check out FriendsWithYou’s “:)” show, at The Hole.

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